SPRINGTIME FOR DONALD IN FLORIDA; Trumpland is happy and gay!

A week ago, Jimmy Kimmel pressed Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane into service to revive their Bialystok and Bloom characters from the Broadway and film remake of The Producers in search of the next big not a chance it can succeed effort:

Yesterday, this photo made the rounds on Twitter after a Trump rally in Orlando, Florida:

As Twitchy notes, “Donald Trump’s voter pledge is a news photographer’s dream.” In asking his supporters to raise their right hands and pledge they’d vote for him in the Florida primary, Trump had to know he was creating a photo op where the cameraman in the back of the room could compose a shot that implies every Fuhrerprinzip cliché that Kimmel, the Washington Post, Louis CK and numerous others have been throwing at The Donald in recent weeks.

As Iowahawk describes the image, it’s perhaps the first “Self-Godwinization” in presidential history. Of course, as with his quoting the line “better to live one single day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep,” which turns out not to originate with Mussolini but predates his rise to power, Trump can point to how Americans pledged allegiance to the flag prior to WWII, so there’s plausible deniability – but c’mon. Trump knew just such a photo would go viral on Twitter, and is likely thrilled that it did.